This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...a year to take up knighthood and pay the incidental fees to the Crown. In the next year, 1279, the Church was dealt with in corresponding fashion. For the second time since his accession, Archbishop the Pope had, not without good reason, ignored Peckham. Edward's desire to make his chancellor, Robert Burnell, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...a year to take up knighthood and pay the incidental fees to the Crown. In the next year, 1279, the Church was dealt with in corresponding fashion. For the second time since his accession, Archbishop the Pope had, not without good reason, ignored Peckham. Edward's desire to make his chancellor, Robert Burnell, archbishop of Canterbury. The new archbishop, a Franciscan friar, John Peckham, was an ardent supporter of the extreme claims of the Church. Almost the first act of Peckham was in effect an assertion of the right to penalise violations of the Great Charter--an imputation that the king had violated it--and to enforce the pronouncements of the ecclesiastical courts, even against the king's officers, by excommunication. Peckham found himself obliged to give way before Edward's indignation; but the king at once proceeded to enact in parliastatute of ment the statute De Religiosis, commonly called the Mortmain, Statute of Mortmain, which forbade the transfer of 1279" land to ecclesiastical corporations without the sanction of the overlord. The statute did not in fact make any material alteration in practice; it amounted to little more than the assertion of the right of the Crown to exercise a control over dispositions of land which in effect released it from sundry of the ordinary feudal obligations. When land passed to a corporation the feudal overlord was permanently deprived of the benefits of escheat, wardship, marriage, and succession. The statute, however, had a practical value in putting a stop to a trick by which lay tenants often sought to evade their obligations by a nominal transfer to the Church, which still left them in effective enjoyment of the estates. After the Statute of Mortmain there was a legislative lull. The archbishop, in spite ...
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